The GraphQL Architecture Assessment answers one question for engineering and digital leadership: should you standardise on a federated supergraph, and if so, what does it unlock? Five days of structured work, one leadership-ready document at the end.
Weighing up federation in the first place? Start with the GraphQL & Federation hub, then come back when you want a decision on your own estate.
We work with your engineering, architecture and digital leadership to assess where you stand, identify where federation unlocks the most value, and give you a roadmap you can act on. The output is shaped for a leadership desk. The engineering detail sits in a separate appendix.
Architecture maturity rating. A structured assessment across five dimensions covering schema discipline, federation readiness, governance, vendor posture and team capability, with a defensible scoring rationale per dimension.
Prioritised use-case shortlist. The two or three highest-value places where federation will unlock measurable time-to-market or integration cost reduction, with a one-pager per case.
Independent vendor recommendation. Build versus buy across Apollo GraphOS, WunderGraph Cosmo and The Guild's Hive, with reasoning specific to your stack and team. No reseller margin to defend.
90-day action plan. Concrete next steps with named owners, dependencies and decision points.
Executive summary and engineering appendix. Business language for the leadership team, technical detail for the team that will implement.
from first conversation to a clear, prioritised roadmap
We send an intake questionnaire and run focused interviews with your tech, architecture and commercial stakeholders, for a realistic picture before anyone is in the room together.
We synthesise the interviews into a preliminary federation maturity assessment and prepare a workshop agenda seeded with the real issues we have already surfaced.
A 3 to 4 hour facilitated session with 4 to 8 cross-functional participants. The agenda comes in prepared. The outputs are decided in the room.
We produce the full deliverable set: maturity rating, use-case shortlist, vendor recommendation, 90-day action plan, executive summary and engineering appendix.
We present the findings and the roadmap to your broader stakeholder group.
Built for mid-to-large organisations with a multi-team API estate and a senior decision-maker who can sponsor the outcomes. Deep GraphQL expertise is not required. Willingness to look honestly at where you stand, and to act on what the assessment surfaces, is.
Typical triggers: a stalled GraphQL initiative, a replatform from a monolithic stack, a partner channel growing faster than your integration team can keep up with, or an AI initiative that cannot get past security review.
Federation sits at the core of Evolve, our composable delivery practice, and we have run it in production since 2019. We hold production experience across Apollo GraphOS, WunderGraph Cosmo and The Guild's Hive, and we resell none of them, which is what makes us credible as an independent adviser.
Our open-source toolkit graphql-codegen-mcp-tools is our production pattern for exposing a federated supergraph safely to AI agents. The engineers who wrote it deliver the assessment.
They know the dark corners that only appear in production: schema drift, breaking changes, query whitelisting, performance edge cases. That depth is hard to buy or build in a year, and it is the substance behind the recommendations we make.
Book a conversation about your estate. Get ahead of the API pressure, and get ready for AI.